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1 984) . 4. See "Restatement (Third) of Foreign Relations Law of the United States," §201 (1987) ( "Under international law, a state is an entity that has a defined territory and a permanent population, under the control of its own government . . ") ; §402 (a state has 'Jurisdiction to prescribe law with respect to ( 1 ) (a) conduct that, wholly or in substantial part, takes place within its territory; (b) the status of persons, or interests in things, present within its territory; (c) conduct outside its territory that has or is intended to have substantial effect within its territory.

Intell. Prop. LJ. 1 ( 1 995) . See also Proceedings of the NSF/DNCEI & Harvard Information Infrastructure Project, Internet Names, Numbers, and Beyond: Issues in the Coordination, Privatization, and Interna­ tionalization of the Internet, Nov. html (discussing protection of the "trademark community" on the Net) . 2 1 . See the section below on Internal Diversity (discussing internal differentia­ tion among rulesets in different online areas) . 22. See notes 64-65 below. 23. Having a noticeable border may be a prerequisite to the establishment of any legal regime that can claim to be separate from preexisting regimes.

Otherwise, economic power will go unchecked by democratically sanctioned political power. . " Michael Sandel, "America's Search for a New Public Philosophy," Atlantic Monthly, Mar. 1996, at 72-73 (emphasis added) . 50. Hilton v. S. 1 1 3, 1 63-164 ( 1 995) . See also Lauritzen v. S. 571 , 582 ( 1 953) ( "International or maritime law . . aims at stability and order through usages which considerations of comity, reciprocity and long­ range interest have developed to define the domain which each nation will claim as its own .